You may have a problem with leading zeroes.
Are there by any chance 2 records with 9 in Record120,2?
On 09/09/2011 04:08, Kevin King wrote:
What can I get you Wally? We did a CREATE.INDEX WO SHOP.CODE NO.NULLS
followed by BUILD.INDEX WO SHOP.CODE. The index seems to work fine
immediately
Kevin:
The things you need to review:
1) LIST.INDEX WO ALL DETAIL - to examine the index definitions and details of
keys in the file
2) From the shell, without the file being updated: guide_ndx -x3,all WO
Review the output file GUIDE_XERROR.LIS for physical or logical corruption
3) UDT.OPTIONS
There is also this link:
It should tell you which version is for which OS.
https://u2tc.rocketsoftware.com/matrix.asp?noitems=yes
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Doug Averch dave...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Kathleene:
I'm not to thrilled using any of the uvtools since they are kind of slow
and
That JC programmer must work in a lot of placesbecause I hear lot's
Of people calling for him, at all hours of the day!
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Phil Walker
Sent: Thursday, September 08,
I guess he must be freelance.
Am 09.09.2011 15:21, schrieb George Gallen:
That JC programmer must work in a lot of placesbecause I hear lot's
Of people calling for him, at all hours of the day!
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
I heard he designed and implemented the original Universe.
He left a rather hefty manual.
It was updated after his last visit.
On 9/9/2011 8:23 AM, Glenn Sallis wrote:
I guess he must be freelance.
Am 09.09.2011 15:21, schrieb George Gallen:
That JC programmer must work in a lot of
I heard he was the first to use RTFM!.
Charles Stevenson stevenson.c...@gmail.com 9/9/2011 10:07 AM
I heard he designed and implemented the original Universe.
He left a rather hefty manual.
It was updated after his last visit.
On 9/9/2011 8:23 AM, Glenn Sallis wrote:
I guess he must be
He must have used a GOTO in his design however, and the punishment
Was quite severe at the time.. (borderline humor)
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charles Stevenson
Sent: Friday, September
If he used a GOTO, he got off easy...
From: ggal...@wyanokegroup.com
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 10:09:44 -0500
Subject: Re: [U2] Ardent programmers
He must have used a GOTO in his design however, and the punishment
Was quite severe at the time..
Just wanted to let everyone know that thanks to Mike Rajkowski and Dan
McGrath I've been able to get a query executed in DataVu.
It apparently does not like a D type dictionary item pointing to
attribute 0 other than @ID.
--
I am exploring the Universe data encryption features... Its my first try at
this really.
I have decent understanding off ssh and ssl, just not the U2 stuff.
My questions are...
Where is a safe place to store the key (as referred to in the docs) that
the function needs to do encrypting and
Read The Father's Manual?
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Porter
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 8:09 AM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Ardent programmers
I heard he was the first to use
Wow, what a Revelation! Are you saying he worked on the entire Cosmos? He
must have been Ardent to Pick the Ultimate project, related to all of
Reality, and stick with the whole Enterprise. The designer of the Universe
must really have some Cache' so I would like him to Mentor me as I could use
:)
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dawn Wolthuis
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 12:01 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Ardent programmers
Wow, what a Revelation! Are you saying he worked on
AMEN
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dawn Wolthuis
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 9:01 AM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Ardent programmers
Wow, what a Revelation! Are you saying he worked
See added text at the end (...)
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dawn Wolthuis
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 12:01 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Ardent programmers
Wow, what a Revelation!
That was pretty good, Dawn!
John Israel
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Dayton Superior Corporation
1125 Byers Road
Miamisburg, OHÂ 45342
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dawn Wolthuis
Sent: Friday,
Oh good catch -- I was using only words of the actual products, but pulling
in some hardware would give us more terrific words, Prime (Pr1me) being near
and dear to my heart. Other words from the Family Tree poster are Climax,
GIRLS, ... so I can see this deteriorating if we expand the VOC (rhymes
I was thinking Spirit was the McDonnell Douglass Equipment - Was it also
software?
Nice little machine...
I'm also guessing, it's a slow Friday!
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dawn Wolthuis
Sent:
Slow or tired of striving, one of the two...
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:28 PM, George Gallen ggal...@wyanokegroup.comwrote:
I was thinking Spirit was the McDonnell Douglass Equipment - Was it also
software?
Nice little machine...
I'm also guessing, it's a slow Friday!
-Original
Wasn't Spirit the one with a natural language query processor? I
remember a friend who was testing natural language and asked What are
the wages of sin?, to which the computer promptly responded $46.50 per
hour. It turns out there was an employee named John Sinn who earned,
you guessed it,
Not only did he use the first Go To, but also the first Return To
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That latest visit I mentioned was all about addressing the GOTO problem.
The updated manual has the vendor-authorized method of avoiding GOTOs.
On 9/9/2011 10:09 AM, George Gallen wrote:
He must have used a GOTO in his design however, and the punishment
Was quite severe at the time..
I just found the document called security in the universe docs... I guess
I better set about reading that.
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:43 AM, John Thompson jthompson...@gmail.comwrote:
I am exploring the Universe data encryption features... Its my first try
at this really.
I have decent
Thanks Wally. In this situation we suspect that the index was rebuilt while
some users had the file open (via SB+ cached file buffers) and those users
were the ones entering transactions that didn't get updated into the index.
We logged everyone off last night and rebuilt the index and so far
If a user has a file open and there is no index created on the file, if another
user creates an index on the file - the first user will not know that an index
has been created (and the bit in the primary file header updated to indicate
that - the number of indexes on the file). So updates to
You are right, I think, but what was I thinking? They are in yellow boxes in
my diagram, so I seem not to have normalized my data. Hmmm. I was being so
anal at the time. Does anyone know if the yellow boxes in the Reality stream
here were what folks at Microdata called the software or were just
The Sequel was followed by the Super Sequel which tested, at the time, the
boundary of moving from say 96 users up to 192 users.
The Spirit was something like the striped down version of the Sequel for those
who didn't want or need or couldn't afford the Sequel.
It wasn't a viable option for
By the way, the Sequoia system wasn't quite called mvEnterprise quite so early
as you're showing (seems to be 1995 ish).
It was still being called just Sequoia. I'm wondering if the odd name-change
didn't occur until the company collapsed ?
I mean there's no reason to try to distinguish
Good questions Will. When I moved 8 years ago, I had one of these posters
with all of the very detailed tidbits that people gave me to correct it. I
lost that in the move and haven't dived back into it -- too many projects
going!
Yes, I think I recall thinking that DG was later but that there was
By the way, I today, for the first time in my career, encountered a seasoned
Pick BASIC programmer, conversant with Paragraphs, but who did not know what
Proc was. Never heard of it.
It only took 20 years of trying to make Proc die I guess ;)
Gotta luv correlatives!
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 3:53 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] Ardent programmers
By the way, I today,
Oh, I can find a whole slug of 'em among the Datatel customer base. I did
not know what a proc was until I peeked out into the larger MV world. Even
now I have not purposely ever looked at a proc. --dawn
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
By the way, I today, for
You haven't missed much. Be thankful you have never had to look at a PROC.
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Dawn Wolthuis dw...@tincat-group.comwrote:
Oh, I can find a whole slug of 'em among the Datatel customer base. I did
not know what a proc was until I peeked out into the larger MV world.
Ah, but how many of them can still write PQ procs ;-)
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 12:53 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] Ardent
Doesn't PROC mean Painfull Reading Of Code?
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Thompson
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 4:14 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Ardent programmers
You haven't
George
Doesn't PROC mean Painfull Reading Of Code?
I thought it was short for Proctology.
Charles Shaffer
Senior Analyst
NTN-Bower Corporation
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It's no coincidence that proctology starts with PROC ;-)
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 1:17 PM
To: U2 Users List
Subject: Re: [U2] Ardent programmers
I really don't know what you guys are complaining about.
My first career position was maintaining and enhancing a system written
entirely in RPL (the one from SMI, not that other one)
Proc is like eating cake compared to RPL.
The simple stuff wasn't badit was when you had to involve the correlatives
where
It started to get cryptic. I started with PQN level.
I equated Procs to MSDOS batch files.
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
That's right Tony, but my point was only that it was not *called* mvEnterprise
in the mid 90s like Dawn's chart would imply. (Where it's just called
mvEnterprise with no predecessor name.)
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From: Tony Gravagno 3xk547...@sneakemail.com
To: u2-users
I can still read and write both PQ and PQN (OK, I'm old). In eons past
it was possible on Microdata to write an entire database app, with file
reads and writes - not that I would want to (I'm cantankerous, not
masochistic, suicidal or stupid). I wouldn't even want to convert one to
Basic
This explains a lot, my friend! ;^)
On 09-09-2011 3:29 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
I really don't know what you guys are complaining about.
My first career position was maintaining and enhancing a system written
entirely in RPL (the one from SMI, not that other one)
Proc is like eating cake
Here it is. Sequoia ran Open Architecture from Pick Systems.
They heavily modified it. I think they did, or at least TRIED to market
something called Pick 64 under their own license, or some kind of sub sub
license scheme to other vendors.
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Love it -- I could have used this story last year, but I'm guessing there
will be another occasion. --dawn
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Charlie Noah cwn...@comcast.net wrote:
Wasn't Spirit the one with a natural language query processor? I remember a
friend who was testing natural
I think from OA to SequoiaPro to mvEnterprise. You can see that I bled
mvEnterprise into the border. It is just a long word. --dawn
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
Here it is. Sequoia ran Open Architecture from Pick Systems.
They heavily modified it. I
I just don't think Sequoia ever called it mvEnterprise
That was my point :)
That it wasn't renamed until after Sequoia was defuncta.
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From: Dawn Wolthuis dw...@tincat-group.com
To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Sent: Fri, Sep 9, 2011 1:47 pm
Subject:
I really don't know what you guys are complaining about.
My first career position was maintaining and enhancing a system
written entirely in RPL (the one from SMI, not that other one)
Proc is like eating cake compared to RPL.
My first PICK environment used RPL on a Vax with the add-in
I started out with Reality and remember the first training courses well.
During the four day slog when the trainer reached the section on PROC he
just said PQN, thats all you need to know about proc and we moved onto
the next topic!
Still I can understand and write PROC, it is a necessity
Right, it does not have Sequoia under it when it has that name, it flows
into TigerLogic. There was a ton of information to try to capture and there
was likely a better way to show this. Thanks for any tips on anything
either inaccurate or not clear. This could obviously be much better and is
now
Extend it into the 2000s!
That's what's missing. The great mergers
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From: Dawn Wolthuis dw...@tincat-group.com
To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Sent: Fri, Sep 9, 2011 2:07 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] Ardent programmers
Right, it does not have Sequoia
Yeah man, of course. I'm working a few projects, moving slower than
molasses, happy to take in info for an update but it it not yet to top of
priorities. --dawn
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
Extend it into the 2000s!
That's what's missing. The great
Both Sequoia and Stratus licensed Pick OA to sell on their fault-tolerant
systems and ran with it in different directions. Sequoia ran a little farther
:) Sequoia ran their pick on top of their proprietary TOPIX operating system
and Stratus ran theirs on top of their VOS os. Sequoia eventually
mvEnterprise doesn't require any support :) It just runs and runs.
On Sep 9, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Tony Gravagno wrote:
From: Wjhonson
I mean there's no reason to try to distinguish
mvEnterprise from mvBase until you're all folded into
a single company right?
mvEnterprise is a Unix-based
yes Include Cache. And Stratus too please, though I think I may have been
one of only 5 or 6 people who actually used it.
On Sep 9, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Dawn Wolthuis wrote:
Right, it does not have Sequoia under it when it has that name, it flows
into TigerLogic. There was a ton of
And then at some point, when a part fails, it tries to call Sequoia to send a
tech to fix itself.
It doesn't know how to handle the message The phone number you've reached has
been disconnected
All sad face.
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From: Ed Clark u...@edclark.net
To: U2 Users List
Am I understanding you correctly Wally that if an index becomes corrupted
for any reason the index is to be deleted, then recreated, and THEN rebuilt?
And in a related question, am I understanding you to say that an index
cannot (should not) be rebuilt without being deleted and recreated?
NO.
I was mostly trying to point out that you need to be specific about what
operations you have done regarding index refreshing. 'rebuild' is unspecific.
For logical integrity issues - which generally occur because folks create
indexes that depend on another file to get the virtual field index
The key can be any text string you want and it's completely up to you
how you store it. I would use a long, random mix of characters. The
most secure place to store it would probably be on removable media that
has to be inserted for the application to work, but that's probably
overly
From: Wjhonson
http://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/...
That page misses the important facts that RPL is still actively
sold, maintained, and used today in active application
development.
RPL (the one from SMI, not that other one)
For historical reference, that was RPL+ licensed by
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